Numbers 27:5

5 and Moses bringeth near their cause before Jehovah.

Numbers 27:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 27:5

And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.
] For it seems it was too difficult for this court to decide; and it devolving upon Moses, as the president of it, and who only could have recourse to God at all times, he carried it to him and consulted with him about it: this, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem say, was one of the four causes that came before Moses the prophet, that he solved according to the mind of the Lord, which he consulted; one was concerning the blasphemer, ( Leviticus 24:11 ) , the other concerning those defiled by the dead, ( Numbers 9:8 ) , the third concerning the sabbath breaker, ( Numbers 15:34 ) and the fourth was this; (See Gill on Leviticus 24:12).

Numbers 27:5 In-Context

3 `Our father died in the wilderness, and he -- he was not in the midst of the company who were met together against Jehovah in the company of Korah, but for his own sin he died, and had no sons;

4 why is the name of our father withdrawn from the midst of his family because he hath no son? give to us a possession in the midst of the brethren of our father;'

5 and Moses bringeth near their cause before Jehovah.

6 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

7 `Rightly are the daughters of Zelophehad speaking; thou dost certainly give to them a possession of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brethren, and hast caused to pass over the inheritance of their father to them.